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Family-Friendly Workplaces: Selection and Satisfaction

We exploiting two unique data sources, a linked employer-employee dataset and a dataset on families in Germany, to analyze the effect of a change in firm family friendliness on workforce composition and worker satisfaction. We focus on two types of family friendly policies: The offer of childcare services and flexible working hours. Combining fixed effect and matching methods to account for...

Educational Interventions and Labor Market Success: Dissertation

Paper 1: Estimating Heterogeneous Returns to Education in Germany via Conditional HeteroskedasticityIn this paper I investigate the causal returns to education for different educational groups in Germany by employing a method by Klein and Vella (2010) that bases identification on the presence of conditional heteroskedasticity. Compared to IV methods, key advantages of this approach are unbiased estimates ...

Internal Migration in Developing Countries

For people in rural areas of developing countries, finding a better paying job or better education is often only possible by moving – migrating – somewhere else. Moreover, agricultural production, generally the main economic activity in rural areas of developing countries, is risky, affected by droughts and floods. Due to poverty and the limited availability of crop insurance, rural households often ...

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Power System Transformation toward Renewables: Investment Scenarios for Germany

We analyze distinctive investment scenarios for the integration of fluctuating renewables in the German power system. Using a combined model for dispatch, transmission, and investment, three different investment options are considered, including gas-fired power plants, pumped hydro storage, and transmission lines. We find that geographically optimized power plant investments dominate in the reference ...

Thirty Years of the Socio-Economic Panel

Thirty years ago, in February 1984, interviewers from TNS Infratest rang the doorbells of approximately 6,000 households across the Federal Republic of Germany and invited them to participate in the study “Living in Germany”, as the SOEP is known to its respondents. This year, we leafed through our files and thought back on what has happened over the last 30 years: What events have shaped the lives ...

Data Distribution SOEP.v29

The 2013 SOEP data release was version 29, which means that29 waves of SOEP data are now available. The range of data weprovide has also expanded to include FID Version 4.0 and the firstversion of SOEP-IS. And, to offer our users integrated documentation,we have developed a new documentation system.

Life Satisfaction in Germany at Highest Levels since Reunification

Today, German citizens are happier on average than at any other point in time since reunification. Although more than 20 years have passed, the level of happiness in eastern Germany is still significantly lower than that in western Germany. This is demonstrated by the most recent long-term Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study data gathered by DIW Berlinin cooperation with TNS Infratest Sozialforschung. ...

Poor, Unemployed, and Politically Inactive?

Low income earners and job seekers are less interested and active in politics than people above the at-risk-of-poverty threshold and the working population. Compared to other European democracies, Germany has slightly above-average levels of inequality of political participation. Data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study suggest that this inequality has followed an upward trend over the last ...

Reduction in Income Inequality Faltering

Inequality of disposable incomes in Germany has decreased slightly since its peak in 2005. However, this trend did not continue in 2011. The most important reasons for this were the inequality in market incomes, including capital incomes, which had increased again. Besides this finding, the updated analyses of personal income distribution based on the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study show that the ...